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Trainspotting. (First edition, first printing)
Trainspotting. (First edition, first printing)
Trainspotting. (First edition, first printing)
Trainspotting. (First edition, first printing)
Trainspotting. (First edition, first printing)
Trainspotting. (First edition, first printing)
Trainspotting. (First edition, first printing)

Trainspotting. (First edition, first printing)


True first edition first printing. “The first edition of Irvine Welsh’s first and best-known book. It made its author a celebrity, and put contemporary Scottish fiction at the forefront of UK writing. Known to many from the hugely successful film version, this book is also a good illustration of the partnership between film and book. Until recent times the first edition of a novel would have been in hard-back form, but the true first edition of Trainspotting is this paperback edition.” (National Library of Scotland)


Description: Trainspotting. (First edition, first printing)

London: Secker & Warburg, (1993). Octavo. 343, [1]pp. Stiff wraps with bi-fold covers. Faint creases at covers’ cornertips; slight binding soil; pages mildly tanned, as usual, due to quality of paper used by the publishers; conservatively: very good; optimistically: near fine.

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Price: $850.00

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